Frequently Asked Questions
Why do I need a Mission Room?
A Mission Room can improve the quality of your business activity and reduce the cost of delivering it. Whether it is through more efficient training, more effective communications or more novel ways of engaging the public this technology can raise the level of your operations.
How can it save me money?
There are many ways. In a training situation for example, it is possible to supplement training delivery without extra training staff or potentially deliver the same training throughput with lower staff levels. Wasted or inefficient site visits can be cut. We have produced a robust and flexible business model spreadsheet to take clients through their own financial benefits.
How can it improve the quality of my operations?
Again there are many ways. In the same training example these improvements include; better quality control through repeatability and guaranteed exposure to key issues; ability to augment site images with information in context; experience real site risks in complete safety; integrated assessment; learning management system and full audit trail provides proof of skill levels attained.
Isn’t this an expensive option?
Pay-back can be as short as 4 months. After pay-back you are then into on-going savings that can be re-invested elsewhere in your business. We can also provide the technology in a range of flexible finance modes to spread any costs over time. Costs can be as low as £4 per hour.
How much space do I need to house a Mission Room?
We custom manufacture each Mission Room and so we can build a system to meet your specific requirements. We suggest a minimum floor space of 3m x 3m and a minimum room height of 2.7m.
How easy is it to operate a Mission Room?
The Mission Room has been designed with simplicity as a key requirement. The applications use simple point and click operation. Users log in to their own personalised list of applications and the whole system can be managed by someone at a secretarial level should you wish. Users are provided with full tutorial facilities to get them operational as quickly as possible.
You say that you will customise our Mission Room to replicate our sites. What does this mean from a practical viewpoint?
We normally require short access to your site (normally less than a day) to take still images and/or videos. We incorporate this with specific site information provided by yourselves into one of our template applications or into a bespoke system. Client involvement can be minimal or you can get involved in detailed design if you so wish.
We have multiple locations where we would like to use a Mission Room. What can we do?
You may want to consider moving a single Mission Room around the country on a regular basis. A Mission Room can be deconstructed, shipped in a Transit-sized van and reconstructed in a day. Alternatively we can offer discounts for multiple purchases.
What throughput can be achieved in a single Mission Room?
This depends on many factors. For a standard sized Mission Room it is possible to put 4 people into the room at one time. With a short (5 minute) application this would equate to 48 people an hour or 384 in an 8 hour day. In other applications it may be more appropriate to increase residence time and reduce concurrent numbers, bringing this figure down significantly. The choice is yours.
What happens if there are technical problems?
The Mission Room has been designed with low maintenance in mind and intelligent, on-line monitoring as standard. Your own IT staff can carry out normal technical support as the system is based on Windows technology. Software updates are provided automatically on-line by AIMS Solutions and we will also remotely monitor your system hardware and projector bulb status on a daily basis as part of the standard installation and maintenance contract.